Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe prejudices
Below is a list of describing words for prejudices. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe prejudices:
- barbaric local
- antiquated and ignorant
- silly previous
- momentary popular
- respective dimensional
- political, economic and patriotic
- well-known and perhaps natural
- insane and wicked
- intense genetic
- racial and economical
- lifeless verbal
- narrower local
- gross local
- longstanding human
- philosophical, political and national
- long-established illiberal
- vulgar connubial
- religious, racial and political
- racial, religious or political
- savage gothic
- narrow administrative
- ingrained cultural
- strong public-school
- else stiff
- obstinate aristocratic
- peculiar and most republican
- great and illiberal
- economic and patriotic
- racial and patriotic
- racial or aesthetic
- largely wholesome
- conscious and malicious
- unjustified and somewhat innocent
- stultifying and blinding
- slothful and self-willed
- universal and unconquerable
- ill-founded popular
- long-standing, widespread
- anti-barbal
- despicable or more
- once deep-rooted
- erroneous and popular
- local, sectional and national
- correct vulgar
- selfish moralistic
- salutary domestic
- venerable, harmless
- singular, unaccountable
- poorest and most despicable
- virulent and common
- strong and unchangeable
- foolish lackadaisical
- just unreasonable
- shoulders--racial
- foolish and very stupid
- unclerical native
- ignorant social
- national and professional
- often half-conscious
- startling but understandable
- ancient hysterical
- antiquated verbal
- real racial
- shameful racial
- gravely false
- stubborn, hereditary
- ineffable nonsensical
- venerable historical
- unthinking or willful
- sectarian and patriotic
- ingrained racial
- national, racial and other
- racial, patriotic or political
- religious, ethnic or national
- religious, political or patriotic
- former and traditional
- religious, national and racial
- political, racial and patriotic
- common but ill-founded
- racial, political and patriotic
- strong and widely prevalent
- political, patriotic and economic
- legitimate, veracious
- virulent national
- jealous social
- gothic and absurd
- irrational, old-world
- ancient puritanical
- unscientific old-world
- deep-rooted racial
- british conformist
- many and absurd
- puritanical middle-class
- absurd patriotic
- bitter and illogical
- zeal or racial
- alarming uninformed
- ancient and apparently inveterate
- unreasoning, stupid
- apparently inveterate
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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